This blog is a place where I write about tools and ideas related to teaching, technology, and making.

Saturday, March 15, 2014

PowToon in the Classroom

PowToon EDU is a fun way to create animated presentations using creative templates. While I was out sick, I decided that PowToon would be a perfect way to communicate with students from home while they have a sub.

Here is my first PowToon. I think that students would really enjoy the process of using this for school projects!

You may embed your work directly from the app or upload it to YouTube, which I personally recommend. When I pasted the embed code, my presentation was not viewable on an iPad.

Here is my second PowToon, using a different template. These presentations could easily be added to ThingLink projects, too!

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I've left the original embedded presentation here, at the bottom of this post, to serve as an example (in case you are viewing it from an iPad.

For the first five years of my career, I taught middle and high school students history and language arts in Vermont. More recently, I've been teaching workshops related to the maker movement and educational tech.